Of Great Character

Collie looked at him with empty eyes, tear-filled eyes, pained eyes. He looked like he wanted to die, but responded emotionally to Anthony, as though bonding with him. He would survive. He had reason to survive.
Sweet Peas merely made his way to class, his shirt ripped, his arms dirty, his face bloodied, friendless, but with an immense peace inside him, a peace as big as the peace in the barn when the cattle are fed...